Just a thought.
For people considering forks (and I am one of them), can we achieve our goal of better privacy and safety by taking all our effort and combining them towards the goal of improving an existing project like GoToSocial so that it can become compatible with Mastodon?
Is that a way forward?
@evemassacre Absolutely, and there seems to be a history of various folks trying to push collective governance of Mastodon. With only marginal gains (it's something, though). One key thing I only recently learned about: #ForkOff, the movement aka #forkofftogether
@er1n @geesehoward (I hate how I just remembered #ForkOffTogether, where they didn’t have any developers at all)
@dajbelshaw I migrated off that instance awhile back, mainly because I have limited co-op opportunities as a retired expat in Mexico. But I also initiated the possibility of having social.coop take over masto.host and potentially be in charge of hosting mastodon.social - that turned into a round of Loomio discussion that just veered off into the mud and stalled. Lots of red tape and bureaucracy. Death by committee, similar to the #ForkOffTogether concept (as far as I can tell). 1/2
@scanlime yeah, I feel like portability between instances is a big target for improvement, right now it still feels pretty hard to just up and leave an instance.
I missed all of the #ForkOffTogether drama & as someone who just wandered in (and who has never had to run a large social network)—making a to disable *any* feature seems like it doesn't need to be debated at length. Maybe it's the cost of a single-controlling-entity being wrong in public. (I am sure I'd find it hard to deal with too).
Psst, if it wasn't obvious, this was mine and @sargoth 's idea throwing some of these temporary documents together for the first #ForkOffTogether meeting.
And I'm still not sure if it worked as intended, or not.
Anyways, I'm loving the transparent process I'm seeing from @Satsuma on this bylaws work now.
Would it be too early in the process to request a suggestion box for @forktogether ?
I'd like to be able to throw relevant links your way.
@jalcine gonna pass this on to #ForkOffTogether!
some thought food for
#forkofftogether and all the other:
''there is something special that happen if people just talk to another and stop giving attention to their opinion leaders.''
here an experiment demonstrating how opinion leaders can reduce collective intelligence (video ~3 min)
Feature: Allow me to pin a column with _serveral_ # searches.
Alt: Make a "List" with # only not users. 
#ForkOffTogether #ForkTogether #ForkOn #ForkOff
Btw, I definitely feel that leaving the discord for #ForkTogether was the right choice for me.
I'm feeling that I'm recovering, but it's taking a lot mroe days than I would've given me if I had stayed.
Again, thank you for understanding and supporting that decision, as well as all the work you're all putting in to #ForkOffTogether <3
Took me over a week since I scribbled it down to publish it, but here's my reflection of my own part in the first #ForkTogether meeting.
http://blogghoran.se/2018/07/10/the-first-forktogether-meeting-and-what-went-wrong/
@Satsuma
since I'm not involved in #forkofftogether I prefer to just write it here, in case something comes to my mind. when people like they can just pick it up.
taiga (already mentioned, is the most powerfull project manager that I came across. Through its different roles it can be simple or more complicated to use)
#onlyoffice
the all in one solution for organizing a project
nextcloud (disroot offers that too)
hubzilla:
forum, CalDav, cloud, chat,
@ryliejamesthomas
@Gargron
I really can't understand all the bullying you are getting. Didn't these people already decide to #forkofftogether ? Doesn't that solve all their gripes, and obsolete their need to harass you? Do yourself a favor and count everyone who uses mastodon without this sort of attitude, as a vote of confidence in your vision and intent.
In case anyone had reservations against me being involved in the #ForkTogether project, I've now stepped away from the meeting server and transferred ownership to @PaulFerence
That means you can participate in the meeting tomorrow without worry of me being there.
And I hope you do. I started this up for you all, not for myself. I know you will make something good out of this without my involvement.
Thank you for understanding.
